[users] Erase Grid Lines?

2008-07-23 Thread Peter Moon
How do I operate on a clean, white page in StarOffice Calc?   I can't find any way to get rid of the irritating greyish-black grid lines.

[users] Reading PDF Files

2008-07-23 Thread hroneill
Hello! I am about to start proofreading for another organization. I am used to receiving my articles in Word Files and want to update my creaky Word 97. The new group sent me PDF files and I don't have Adobe.? Can OpenOffice read/edit PDF files? Please answer ASAP. Thanx. Helene O'Neill

[users] [moderated] CALC - SHARING

2008-07-23 Thread Jamie Gardiner
Hi, We are desperate to move to calc, away from excel, and are very excited about the new sharing option in 3.0. However, it seems not to allow formatting changes which is vital to our use. All we need to do is change cell colour, text colour, and draw borders around cells. Is this

[users] Re: Fontwork

2008-07-23 Thread Jean Baptiste Faure
Alberto Muller wrote: Hello all ! I've got a little problem with OO 2.4.1. In the help menu of the French version I use, there is no trace of Fontwork or the word Font tout court. Any idea why ? Thank you A.Muller Hi Alberto, OPen a new Writer document and press F1. Choose tab

[users] Open Office Track Changes Question

2008-07-23 Thread Justin King
To Whom It May Concern, I am having a problem with the track changes command in Open Office 2.2. A few days ago I edited a document and used the track changes command. It highlighted and underlined my changes in red. I saved and now I want to make more changes, but want it to show as part of

[users] [moderated]

2008-07-23 Thread Armor Construction
How do I uninstall this product? We don't want it on our PC. Thanks. Cheri

[users] merged labels

2008-07-23 Thread Francine Perlman
Hi, I was unable to find an answer to this question at http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html In Word, I was able to make labels through Merge Wizzard from a table full of names and address. The Merge feature in OpenOffice Writer only permits letters and the Labels feature seems only to

[users] Re: Encodage problem in french

2008-07-23 Thread Jean Baptiste Faure
Sam Przyswa wrote: Hi, I got a problem with Ubuntu Edgy and Hardy with some fonts as Comic Sans Serif MS or Arial when I write é it's displayed È or à is displayed as unknown symbol ? - All my previous .odt files are unusable. My default setup is UTF-8 How to fix that ? Have you

Re: Re: [users] MS Power Point will not open Impress Presentation

2008-07-23 Thread haroldmadison
You were Correct. Thanks for your help. Harold From: James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/07/21 Mon AM 06:18:38 CDT To: users@openoffice.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [users] MS Power Point will not open Impress Presentation [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: MS Power Point

Fwd: [users] [moderated] Question in Spanish about Word 2003 OOo 2.4.2

2008-07-23 Thread german jurado
-- Mensaje reenviado -- De: Harold Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: 21 de julio de 2008 5:03 Asunto: Re: [users] [moderated] Question in Spanish about Word 2003 OOo 2.4.2 Para: users@openoffice.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008/7/18 German Jurado Cano [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Buenos

Re: [users] Re: [moderated]

2008-07-23 Thread Malcolm Brown
Great, thanks fellas. Most helpful. Much appreciated. ~Malcolm Brown - Original Message - From: Guy Voets To: users@openoffice.org Cc: Malcolm Brown Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 2:40 PM Subject: Re: [users] Re: [moderated] 2008/7/21 Russell Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Re: [users] An idea from a grandma in the outback!

2008-07-23 Thread Yolanthe
Dear Harold. First thanks for answering. I just think that because OpenOffice is so popular the to create OfineOneNote might be gratefully accepted by a lot of students too. OpenDraw is great instead of Publisher or PowerPoint. It works well for me! OneNote is good if you are just noting

Re: [users] starting open office

2008-07-23 Thread ROBERT JENSEN
I located the files.  Thanks for your help. Rob Jensen - Original Message From: James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 7:32:00 AM Subject: Re: [users] starting open office ROBERT JENSEN wrote: Hello, I downloaded the

[users] [moderated]

2008-07-23 Thread THOMAS DANIEL O'Brien
Dear Sir or Madam, I am considering downloading and using OpenOffice for educational purposes. The major concern I have is if the Writer programme can work with Endnote referencing programme. Can you please reply to let me know if this is possible. Many thanks Tom *** Before acting

Re: [users] Making a simple HTML document

2008-07-23 Thread Stan Goodman
At 10:59:54 on Monday Monday 21 July 2008, Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:03:30 +0300 Stan Goodman wrote: I am trying to make my first HTML document using OOo. It is to be about as simple a document as could be imagined. I am stymied. The document is to

[users] Re: [moderated] Problems installing on OSX 10.5.4

2008-07-23 Thread Larry Gusaas
Rosemarie Perrin, 2008/07/22 10:26 PM: Hi, I've downloaded OpenOffice but can't install it on my new MacBook, which has OSX 10.5.4. I have X11 in my utilities folder, so I am not using the Apple installation disk. The download appears to work, and OpenOffice appears in the Downloads folder.

[users] Re: Reading PDF Files

2008-07-23 Thread Jonathan Kaye
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I am about to start proofreading for another organization. I am used to receiving my articles in Word Files and want to update my creaky Word 97. The new group sent me PDF files and I don't have Adobe.? Can OpenOffice read/edit PDF files? Please answer

Re: [users] [moderated]

2008-07-23 Thread Rob Clement
Armor Construction wrote: How do I uninstall this product? We don't want it on our PC. Thanks. Cheri Cheri You do not say what operating system you are using. I will assume Windows XP. If you open the Control Panel, you will find program called Add/Remove programs. Double click it to run

[users] Re: Reading PDF Files

2008-07-23 Thread Russell Butler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I am about to start proofreading for another organization. I am used to receiving my articles in Word Files and want to update my creaky Word 97. The new group sent me PDF files and I don't have Adobe.? Can OpenOffice read/edit PDF files? Please answer ASAP.

Re: [users] Erase Grid Lines?

2008-07-23 Thread Guy Voets
2008/7/23 Peter Moon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: How do I operate on a clean, white page in StarOffice Calc? I can't find any way to get rid of the irritating greyish-black grid lines. Hello Peter, Did you try from the main menu: Tools (next to Format) Options OpenOffice.org Calc Lay-out

Re: [users] Re: Installing OO.o on PCLinuxOS

2008-07-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 01:40:35 Russell Butler wrote: I presume PCLinuxOS 2007 is debian based, using synaptic? No, it is based on Mandriva and is therefore rpm. Lisi - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: [users] merged labels

2008-07-23 Thread Guy Voets
2008/7/22 Francine Perlman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I was unable to find an answer to this question at http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html In Word, I was able to make labels through Merge Wizzard from a table full of names and address. The Merge feature in OpenOffice Writer only

Re: [users] Re: Installing OO.o on PCLinuxOS

2008-07-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 03:33:59 Howard Coles Jr. wrote: PCLinuxOS has been slipping bad of late, and I think the fact that there is no 2008 edition may speak wonders. There is minime 2008 and 2007.2, which is actually 2008. Lisi

[users] Text Document

2008-07-23 Thread Colene Merrilda
On File-New-Text Document ..I get a default frame/Border ..I want to deactivate /remove this .How can I do this . Colene

Re: [users] Text Document

2008-07-23 Thread Guy Voets
2008/7/23 Colene Merrilda [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On File-New-Text Document ..I get a default frame/Border ..I want to deactivate /remove this .How can I do this . Colene Hello Colene, May be in Tools Options OpenOffice.org Writer Lay-out? HTH -- Guy using dutch OOo Aqua 3.0.0 Beta-2 on a

Re: [users] Text Document

2008-07-23 Thread Colene Merrilda
I dont see Layout in the path you have mentioned On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Guy Voets [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/7/23 Colene Merrilda [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On File-New-Text Document ..I get a default frame/Border ..I want to deactivate /remove this .How can I do this .

Re: [users] Text Document

2008-07-23 Thread Colene Merrilda
I have OO 2.4.1 On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Colene Merrilda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I dont see Layout in the path you have mentioned On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Guy Voets [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/7/23 Colene Merrilda [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On File-New-Text Document ..I

Re: [users] Text Document

2008-07-23 Thread Guy Voets
2008/7/23 Colene Merrilda [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have OO 2.4.1 On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Colene Merrilda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I dont see Layout in the path you have mentioned On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Guy Voets [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/7/23 Colene

Re: [users] Text Document

2008-07-23 Thread Colene Merrilda
I want to remove the borders for all the three areas (Header ,Body and Footer) In the path you specified I have Tools -Options- OpenOffice writer -View(Second option)... On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Guy Voets [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/7/23 Colene Merrilda [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I

Re: [users] Text Document

2008-07-23 Thread Sammy Njuguna
2008/7/23 Colene Merrilda [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On File-New-Text Document ..I get a default frame/Border ..I want to deactivate /remove this .How can I do this . Colene Go to View,on the drop down menu,Go to Text Boundaries,Uncheck the option and there you go. Enjoy! Sammy

Re: [users] Text Document

2008-07-23 Thread Colene Merrilda
Thanks a lot Sammy... On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Sammy Njuguna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/7/23 Colene Merrilda [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On File-New-Text Document ..I get a default frame/Border ..I want to deactivate /remove this .How can I do this . Colene Go to

Re: [users] Text Document

2008-07-23 Thread Brian Barker
At 11:07 23/07/2008 +0200, Colene Merrilda wrote: On File-New-Text Document ..I get a default frame/Border ..I want to deactivate /remove this .How can I do this . If you see a light gray frame, note first that this is just a guide to show you how the margins and the text area fit on the

Re: [users] Reading PDF Files

2008-07-23 Thread Richard Detwiler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I am about to start proofreading for another organization. I am used to receiving my articles in Word Files and want to update my creaky Word 97. The new group sent me PDF files and I don't have Adobe.? Can OpenOffice read/edit PDF files? Please answer ASAP.

Re: [users] Reading PDF Files

2008-07-23 Thread bill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I am about to start proofreading for another organization. I am used to receiving my articles in Word Files and want to update my creaky Word 97. The new group sent me PDF files and I don't have Adobe.? Can OpenOffice read/edit PDF files? Please answer ASAP.

Re: [users] merged labels

2008-07-23 Thread Brian Barker
At 13:14 22/07/2008 -0400, Francine Perlman wrote: In Word, I was able to make labels through Merge Wizard from a table full of names and address. The Merge feature in OpenOffice Writer only permits letters and the Labels feature seems only to permit a page full of the same label. Is there a

Re: [users] Reading PDF Files

2008-07-23 Thread James Knott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I am about to start proofreading for another organization. I am used to receiving my articles in Word Files and want to update my creaky Word 97. The new group sent me PDF files and I don't have Adobe.? Can OpenOffice read/edit PDF files? OpenOffice can

Re: [users] merged labels

2008-07-23 Thread Harold Fuchs
2008/7/23 Brian Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: At 13:14 22/07/2008 -0400, Francine Perlman wrote: In Word, I was able to make labels through Merge Wizard from a table full of names and address. The Merge feature in OpenOffice Writer only permits letters and the Labels feature seems only to

Re: [users] Text Document

2008-07-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 11:10:43 Colene Merrilda wrote: On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Guy Voets [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/7/23 Colene Merrilda [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have OO 2.4.1 On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Colene Merrilda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I dont see

Re: [users] Reading PDF Files

2008-07-23 Thread mike scott
On 23 Jul 2008 at 6:32, Richard Detwiler wrote: ... My suggestion would be to download it from Adobe -- it's free (the Reader application, that is). It seems to be getting remarkably heavyweight lately. Certainly very sluggish on my box, both to start and in use. I hear there are freeware

Re: [users] [moderated]

2008-07-23 Thread Dave Barton
Original Message From: THOMAS DANIEL O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon 21 Jul 2008 20:13:58 EST Dear Sir or Madam, I am considering downloading and using OpenOffice for educational purposes. The major concern I have is if the Writer programme can work with Endnote

Re: [users] merged labels

2008-07-23 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Harold Fuchs wrote: 2008/7/23 Brian Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: At 13:14 22/07/2008 -0400, Francine Perlman wrote: In Word, I was able to make labels through Merge Wizard from a table full of names and address. The Merge feature in OpenOffice Writer only permits letters

Re: [users] merged labels

2008-07-23 Thread Brian Barker
At 07:12 23/07/2008 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Harold Fuchs wrote: This tutorial may help: http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2006/07/mail_merge_labe.html The tutorial refers to making labels from database information. What do you do to make labels from

Re: [users] Reading PDF Files

2008-07-23 Thread A Chilco
Hi Helene, The current version of OOo won't read PDF files. Version 3 is supposed to be able to. You'd have to download the beta version to try it out. An alternative would be to use Foxit Reader. It has the facility to add notes and text to a pdf. You can't change the existing text, but it

Re: [users] Reading PDF Files

2008-07-23 Thread Anthony Chilco
Hi again, I just downloaded and installed OOo 3 beta. In order to import pdf, you need to add the pdf import extension. You can get it here: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport?intcmp=1549 tc A Chilco wrote: Hi Helene, The current version of OOo won't read PDF files.

[users] [feature request] ETA on OpenOffice update download.

2008-07-23 Thread Jason Cipriani
Please put the estimated time remaining for the download to complete on the OpenOffice update download dialog. That's a pretty standard thing to show during a big download, you know. Thanks, Jason - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

[users] Community Innovation Program notification?

2008-07-23 Thread Alan C. Baird
If I have sent this message to the wrong list, please excuse the intrusion... Re: http://development.openoffice.org/community_innovation_program.html The page says: Winners will be notified by email on or around 21 July 2008 and I'm wondering if anyone has received a notification yet? I'm

[users] Re: docx files, unicode glyphs in OOo 2.4.1 on Hardy

2008-07-23 Thread NoOp
On 07/21/2008 04:51 AM, M Henri Day wrote: This last couple of months, I've found to my surprise that I've been able to open docx files sent to me as email attachments directly in OOo 2.4.1 by simply clicking on the attachment and opening it in Writer (my default setting). My understanding had

[users] Re: Note Bar driving me insane

2008-07-23 Thread NoOp
On 07/20/2008 11:41 PM, Richard wrote: Any help here would be appreciated, while scrolling down a typed document using the wheel on the mouse, a yellow bar appears beside the courser while scrolling, showing the name of my company, this is long and goes across the page and is driving me

[users] Re: An idea from a grandma in the outback!

2008-07-23 Thread NoOp
On 07/21/2008 01:29 AM, Jonathan Kaye wrote: Yolanthe wrote: Dear Readers and programmers, Simple stuff really and it has to remain very simple indeed for grandmas like me. There is OneNote 2007 that I do use all the time, so I wonder if that can be included or all people to use?

Re: [users] OOo-2.4.1 64-bit build fails

2008-07-23 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
I think that I had to use the standard Fedora build on Fedora 8, but I had to use the OOo builds on Fedora 9. (but that was a long time ago so things may have changed). John Thompson wrote: Using Fedora8-x86_64 here, not ready to move to F9 yet but I'd like to update OOo to v2.4.1. Using the

[users] Trouble with OOo Beta 2

2008-07-23 Thread David Bird
The direct cursor doesn't seem to be working. I went into the necessary option and made sure that it was activated. I even deactivated it and then reactivated to no avail. Any suggestions? Dave -- 'The only thing necessary for the triumph [of evil] is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke

Re: [users] [moderated] CALC - SHARING

2008-07-23 Thread JOE Conner
YES - See the attached. Joe Conner, Poulsbo, WA USA Jamie Gardiner wrote: Hi, We are desperate to move to calc, away from excel, and are very excited about the new sharing option in 3.0. However, it seems not to allow formatting changes which is vital to our use. All we

[users] Re: How to change default page size?

2008-07-23 Thread Matt Needles
Erik P. Olsen wrote: On 13/07/08 09:58, Brian Barker wrote: At 11:46 11/07/2008 +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: I am exclusively using European page sizes like A4, A5, C2 etc. Invariably OO suggests US Letter, Legal or similar American standard sizes. I guess that somewhere in OO is a definition